Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Mangaldan mayor to fast tract projects

MANGALDAN – The reelected mayor here is all
geared up to pass major projects in the council after some opposition members lost
in the May 9 election.

PEP-TALK. Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno gives encouragement to the scholars funded by her administration. Parayno just won her reelection inthe May 9 poll.

Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno said those projects
were the first order of the day in the meeting she called a week after the May
9 election.

“Oh
yes of course, and we will spearhead lahat ng mga project and activities na
kailangan alam ko nakakapagpaganda sa mga Mangaldaneans. Actually that was
our first meeting ngayon. That is what we are going to do in 2016-2017. Napag-usapan
na namin ng mga department heads,” she stressed.

Parayno defeated in the mayoralty race Vice
Mayor Manny Casupang by a margin of 1,336 votes where the former got 19,093
votes versus the latter 17,757.

Both Casupang and Meneses opposed vehemently
many of the proposed projects of Parayno in most of her three years of her
first term that started in 2013.

With Casupang defeated and the vice mayoralty
post here chalked up by Parayno’s party mate come backing Vice Mayor Pedro Surdilla
and other four allied councilors, many of these projects like the snagged P40
million proposed loan at a bank would now have a chance to be approved.

As recalled, Mayor Parayno have been
shuttling back and forth since last year from here to the Capitol in Lingayen,
Pangasinan to emphatically lobby for the approval of her P40 million Land Bank
loan that this town will use for the construction of the Phase 2 of the public
market.

The approval of the review by the provincial
board hit a setback after Vice Mayor Casupang questioned the ordinance in the
absence of a qualified majority or complete members of the nine-members Council that should have voted for the loan.

"Two of the council members were absent when the SB (Council) passed the loan ordinance. The vice mayor questioned it at the provincial board," Surdilla said.But the incoming vice mayor disclosed that the Board approved the review of the loan after two of those absent voted for the loan on the second session here."We can start the construction of the public market on August," the incoming vice mayor cited last Wednesday..

Parayno said the lessons she learned in the concluded
mayoralty race was there were colleagues in the local government here that
covertly supported her rival.